Sat.Dec 31, 2011 - Fri.Jan 06, 2012

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Promote YOUR Blog Day

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Today is promote your blog day 2012. Today is your day for fully authorized, gratuitous self-promotion of YOUR blog. For one day only, this is your chance to shamelessly plug your blog in the comments section below. I did this last year and thought I’d make it an annual event. It’s a fantastic way to help readers who share common interests find one another.

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Leadership and Emotional Reciprocity

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Today we are faced with the pre-eminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships. —Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1945 Your emotions and actions impact those you lead. Research indicates that a ten percent increase in a perception of a leader who creates a positive emotional work climate results [.].

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The Leader And The Peacock In The Closet

Terry Starbucker

Success is a beautiful thing. We all want it, because it’s the undisputed champion in measuring our professional selves. We know it’s hard to get, and that’s what makes it all the more satisfying. We cherish it, because we know what it’s like to fail (because we all do). So, when it happens, there’s the part of us that wants to strut around like a peacock.

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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2012

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January. What Matters Now : How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation by Gary Hamel. Smart Trust : Creating Prosperity, Energy, and Joy in a Low-Trust World by Stephen M.R. Covey and Greg Link with Rebecca R. Merrill. The Shaping of an Effective Leader : Eight Formative Principles of Leadership by Gayle D.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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4 New Year’s Resolutions To Help Your Organization Succeed This Year

Tanveer Naseer

With the holiday celebrations now at an end, many of us are returning to our usual daily grind refreshed, rejuvenated and ready to dive into the tasks awaiting our attention. The start of a new year is also a time when many of us make resolutions of what we’d like to accomplish over the next 365 days, and possibly beyond. Granted, it’s only natural that we’d be motivated right now to create these lists of goals, as the start of a new year often inspires that feeling of a new st

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21st-century leaders make 19th-century mistake

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Change Management Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Value Creation Workplace Issues Your corporate culture is your soil. It’s where your employees grow or wither. Are you cultivating it? Or are you washing it away in your quest to maximize this year’s profits?

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Power Corrupts Sooner than You Think

Leading Blog

In a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887, Lord Acton observed that “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” British Prime Minister William Pitt also observed, “Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.” Power is a tricky thing and we rely on it more than we should.

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The Leadership Love-in

In the CEO Afterlife

I’ve read scads of books, blogs and journals on leadership. Everything I read has been said before – maybe in a different way and usually with different supportive examples; yet, I can’t seem to stay away from the subject. Apparently, neither can others. Leadership books, blogs, and tweets continue to command an impressive share of human interest as expressed by various readership analytics.

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The 3 Step Triple Threat: Become an excellent communicator to be a better leader

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Part 2: The 3 Step Triple Threat & How Leaders Achieve Goals (Read Part 1: What do frogs have to do with leadership?) Are you an emerging leader or newly promoted leader looking for a goal-setting strategy to make lasting, positive changes in soft skills? Here’s your solution. Part 2 of the 4 part series. [.].

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10 Sure Fire Ways to Find Your Greatness

Leadership Freak

** Our world confuses potential with performance. Never let mediocre performance seem outstanding. You insult high performers, nurture incompetence, sell yourself short. You aren’t entitled to greatness, it’s earned. What is greatness: Greatness is serving; the more you serve the greater you are. 10 Ways to find your greatness: Embrace dissatisfaction.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Leading Views: James Stockdale on Leadership

Leading Blog

In A Vietnam Experience : Ten Years of Reflection (1984) by James Stockdale, he writes: Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers. We are tired of leaders we fear, tired of leaders we love, and most tired of leaders who let us take liberties with them.

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My Best Blogs of 2011

In the CEO Afterlife

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. Frankly, I wasn’t sure whether I could maintain the pace of one blog per week. But as the year closes, I realize that I’ve posted 54 blogs. My fascination isn’t my productivity; rather, it is the source of the idea. Never would I have thought that a tattered American flag hanging from a beach house in Ventura would lead to a blog on the “good” in America or would an ingenious panhandler a

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3 key concepts for successful goal setting as a leader

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Today’s SmartBlog for Leadership post is written by Guy Harris, a master trainer and coach with the Kevin Eikenberry Group. Read about his three concepts to remember as you set goals with others so that you create motivation rather than despair.

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How to Use the Leading in Context® Website

Leading in Context

How to Use The Leading in Context® Website Consider how you want to find information and then click on the link below: ? To understand the evolving definition of "leading ethically" in a global society (Review Selected Posts) ? To follow my curiosity (Scan the Blog Index for titles that interest you!).

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5 Ways to Improve DE&I in the Workplace

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical for an organization’s success. And companies that take bold action to help ensure an inclusive workplace will win every time. Discover how your company can create a culture that celebrates DE&I while achieving higher revenue and growth.

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2011 that you might have missed: @wallybock >> Imagination Igniters: Books for Leaders. @KevinEikenberry Valueable Distinction >> Achievement vs. Success. @steveroesler: 6 Important Marketing Trends to Watch in 2012 : The World :: American Express OPEN Forum. Gallup Poll: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton Again Top Most Admired List.

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3 Stretch Goals for Your Way of Being

Persuasive Powerhouse

As you begin to think about your goals for 2012, you might find yourself stumped. What new goals will you have? What would be the most effective way to upgrade your leadership (besides subscribing to this blog or hiring me )? We often think of the goals we need to do ; that big project that needs to be completed, the performance evaluations that you want to do on time, staying under budget, or connecting with customers.

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From defeated pessimist to realistic optimist

Leadership Freak

Pessimists can’t lead. Pessimism serves leaders, however. Solving problems requires you first see and acknowledge them. If you plan to move forward, stop dancing around the elephant. Ask hard questions. Additionally, successful leadership includes looking down the road anticipating and preparing for failures, challenges, and problems. If it can go wrong, eventually it will.

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Three Questions to Guide Your Year

Next Level Blog

I was away for a few weeks over the holidays. It was a nice break and it’s good to be back. One of the good things about being back is reconnecting with friends I haven’t seen in awhile. One of those is a friend from yoga. We gave each other a hug hello at class the other night and she said, “Well, here we are.” My response was, “Yeah, 2012, it’s the only year we’ve got.

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No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results

Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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Rethinking Learning at Work

Kevin Eikenberry

Many people reading these words either took piano lessons or paid for their children to take them. I don’t think it would be much of a stretch to say that everyone reading these words knows someone who has taken piano lessons. If they can play piano at all, how many lessons did they take? In [.].

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Can You Deliberately Practice Soft Skills?

Persuasive Powerhouse

A recent comment by a reader on an older post, “ It Takes Time to Make Great Leaders ” sparked my thinking about whether leaders can truly “practice” the soft skills involved in leading in a deliberate way. I began to wonder if I was drawing a parallel to the work of Benjamin Bloom and Geoff Colvin that was inappropriate. Or…perhaps I’m protecting my own way of making a living by helping leaders to practice soft skills, making me unable to see the truth (if there is

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The Secret Power of Destroying Secrets

Leadership Freak

Manipulators, backstabbers, and poor performers love organizations with secrets. In fact, they create, nurture and protect environments where secrets are normal, even virtuous. Most organizations have too many secrets. Too many conversations are reserved for insiders. Too much information is held by too few. Secrets create elitism. Why we fear transparency: We play favorites and [.].

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Ten Resolutions That Will Improve Your Presentations This Year

Next Level Blog

A senior executive friend of mine spends a lot of time listening to presentations. A few weeks ago, he sent me an email from a two day conference he was attending. After 10 or 12 hours of bad presentations, he began to take out his frustration by using his iPad to write a set of rules for presenters. He then. Click headline to continue.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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How to (or NOT to) Stand Out With Your Resume

Women on Business

How to (or NOT to) Stand Out With Your Resume. I recently came across an article on MSN careers, titled 20 Unusual Resume Tactics to Avoid. In it, the author, Autumn McReynolds, shared what she believed to be tactics to avoid with your resume, based on the annual CareerBuilder survey. These 20 tactics were: Candidate said the more you paid him, the harder he worked.

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Thought-full Thursday: Choosing Passion

Persuasive Powerhouse

Every Thursday, we provide you with a thoughtful way to coach yourself – something all leaders need to do. Today we feature a quote from my friend Becky Robinson , whose Weaving Influence blog is a masterpiece of beautiful prose. I admire every turn of a phrase she writes. And lucky us; she sometimes writes about leadership (but I happen to think that all of her posts are about leadership).

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How to Leverage the Benefits of Confusion

Leadership Freak

Progress requires clarity. Confusion paralyzes. Great leaders create clarity; poor leaders confuse. Worse yet, confused people pull back. Paralyzing confusion is bad but confusion has benefits. Confusion precedes breakthrough. Pushing confusion away pushes progress away. Confusion drives everyone to seek clarity. Confusion opens us to outside influences and input.

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Creating a Work Space That Promotes Your Productivity

Kevin Eikenberry

Everyone reading these words has a place where they work. And most of you have a place where you work best. The goal of this article is to help you make sure those places are the same. As a business owner, I have more degrees of freedom to consciously create a space that works for [.].

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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“The Outsiders” by Need To Breathe – Servant Leadership Inspiration

Modern Servant Leader

I know your frustration. I feel your pain. Sitting there, hearing some self-absorbed , toxic leader drone on about one bad practice after another. Yet, you know there is a better way. I’m here to tell you, you’re not alone and I have some theme music to inspire you – “The Outsiders” by Need to Breathe. The Outsiders by Need to Breathe (Acoustic).

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5 Costly Website Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Women on Business

Your website can be a powerful tool for marketing you and your business. It gives you a platform to reach your audience, to connect with your ideal clients, and to show them how you can help them. Whether you have a local or an international business, a website can definitely boost your sales! You can’t just throw up a website and hope for the best, though.

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Tenacity in 2012

Lead on Purpose

Successful people share several common traits; tenacity is at the top. Merriam-Webster defines tenacious as “persistent in maintaining, adhering to, or seeking something valued or desired.” Think about your favorite athlete, actor, business leader, or other successful person and you’re sure to find tenacity as one of their defining characteristics. Tenacity fuels persistence.

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Sprinkle Joy

Kevin Eikenberry

I’ve read a lot of Ralph Waldo Emerson over time, but never, that I can recall, had I read this, until yesterday. “Sprinkle joy.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Questions to Ponder When do I sprinkle joy? Where do I sprinkle joy? How can I sprinkle more of it? Action Steps Find ways to bring more joy to [.].

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How to Write OKRs: 45 Effective Examples

Discover how to align everyday employee priorities with company goals. Many companies are embracing objectives and key results (OKRs) as the best practice for committing to goals and following through. Objectives are outcomes that reflect current company priorities. Each employee should write OKRs that roll up to larger company goals. Show employees how they contribute to the larger mission.